Deborah M. Soon
Deborah M. Soon
Vice President, Marketing & Executive Leadership Initiatives
dsoon@catalyst.org
Deborah M. Soon leads the Catalyst marketing organization, directing marketing strategy development, the editorial and design processes, events planning, and public affairs. She is also responsible for Catalyst services targeted to the most senior women executives in corporations. The core of these services, Corporate Board Services, focuses on the advancement of women into the corporate boardroom through candidate assessment and preparation.
Prior to working at Catalyst, Ms. Soon was a consultant at Spencer Stuart, one of the leading global executive search firms. Her search engagements focused on the areas of technology, education, and healthcare, with specific functional emphasis on CEO, other senior executive, and board placements. Prior to Spencer Stuart, Ms. Soon was the CEO of Larscom, a telecommunications company she took public in 1996 and subsequently led as a public entity. Earlier in her career, Ms. Soon held various executive positions in marketing and software engineering at AT&T, BBN, and EDS.
Ms. Soon holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. She also completed special studies in Mathematics at Cambridge University, England. Ms. Soon is member of the Diversity Board of Advisors for Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Business School Asian American Alumni Association.